Paris Saint-Germain are giving a few days off to two of their World Cup stars.

France and Morocco stars Kylian Mbappe and Achraf Hakimi, who are close friends, are both being given a bit of time off.

PSG were below par during a shock Ligue 1 loss to Lens this weekend.

Paris Saint-Germain boss Christophe Galtier confirmed post-game: “Hakimi and Mbappe will have a few days off.

“The plan was that they could play these two games. They will now recover."

He added: "There are individual cases with the players who went very far. Achraf Hakimi played in every game at the World Cup for Morocco. He was in the team of the World Cup. He wanted to get back as quickly as possible, as did Kylian Mbappe.

"He also turned in some brilliant performances and was the top goalscorer at the World Cup. After speaking to him and all my different teams who stayed in regular contact with the players, Kylian Mbappe wanted to join back up with us pretty quickly."

PSG are also without Lionel Messi at present, as the World Cup winner has still not returned from his celebrations with Argentina.